Meta Schoepp

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Meta Schoepp 1911

Meta Schoepp (born May 10, 1868 in Düsseldorf , † May 12, 1939 in Waren an der Müritz ) was a German writer . She wrote fourteen novels and four short stories. Her books deal several times with the subjects of Heligoland , the navy and living conditions in the German Empire and the Weimar Republic. Her novels usually achieved several editions.

Life

In 1872 Meta Schoepp moved with her family from Düsseldorf to Austria. She may have moved to Berlin in 1890 and studied there. In 1897 she married Dr. Friedrich Zimmermann on Heligoland and moved to Koenigs Wusterhausen . Zimmermann had been a spa doctor on Heligoland until 1880. The son Fritz was born in 1899. In 1912 she stayed in Hamburg. Her husband died in 1916. In 1919 she married the major a. D. Franz Xaver Leo and moved to Berlin-Lichterfelde . The marriage later ended in divorce. In April 1923 Meta Schoepp traveled to the USA. In New York she published the English-language novel Scrapped . In the early 1930s she returned to Germany and lived in Hamburg. In the Third Reich she was classified by the National Socialists as “half-Jewish” and prohibited from writing. In the summer of 1938 she was granted a restricted “special permit only as a naval writer”. She died by suicide in 1939.

Works (selection)

  • On red earth (1903, Schuster & Loeffler)
  • Los from Berlin! (1903)
  • The people of Bödöla (1908, F. Fontane & Co.)
  • My boy and me (1910)
  • Skepp uhn Strunn (1912, F. Fontane & Co), new edition under the title "Ship on the Beach - A Helgoland novel" (1919, Verlag August Scherl), various new editions until 2009
  • Blockade (1915, Ullstein & Co)
  • The Lord on Silberberg (1917, Verlag Ullstein & Co)
  • Millionensegen (1920, Verlag August Scherl), filmed in 1922 as "Das Testament des Ive Sievers" with Hans Albers in the lead role, reprint 1944 as Millionensegen after Vineta , new edition 2007 Millionensegen , Husum Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, ISBN 978-389876-305- 9
  • Scrapped (1929, Covici-Friede), translated into English by Louise Tausig, not published in German
  • Benjamin Raule - The novel about the founding of the Brandenburg Navy (1934, Broschek publishing house)
  • The dying elector (), initially not published due to a writing ban
  • Danckelmann and the Devil of Berlin (1944, R. Kämmerer), initially not published due to a writing ban

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Afterword by Arno Bammé and Thomas Steensen to “Meta Schoepp, Millionensegen” at Husum Druck
personal data
SURNAME Schoepp, Meta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH May 12, 1939
Place of death Goods (Müritz)